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Solo traveler in San Antonio - walking after dark

I am traveling to San Antonio for a conference in a few weeks and staying at the Crowne Plaza on Pecan St. I usually do a lot of walking around by myself after sitting around in seminars all day. When I checked the hotel on TripAdvisor, there were a few posts referring to the location of the hotel as on a "seedy" street. Hopefully, these are just Nervous Nellies? I live in a big city and often travel by myself, so I am not really anxious about it - just would like to get input from someone familiar with the area.

I was at a conference in San Antonio in September and stayed at the Westin. While I'm not totally sure where your hotel is, I can say that I wasn't totally comfortable walking around San Antonio by myself, except for the part of the River Walk where the restaurants and bars are. Since you live in a big city, I would just suggest to apply the same level of security as you would at home, and I'm sure you'll be fine. I meant to look up the crime rate (but haven't done so) but did find that a lot of streets were very empty and in certain areas, there were definitely lots of loiterers....

I was in SA last weekend alone and I stayed at a hotel quite a ways down the riverwalk from the popular area. I did not feel great walking around by myself after dark, but did it anyway, since a-I live in Detroit b-I'm a runner and c- I have a brown belt in kempo. There are your usual garden variety drunks/addicts but I didn't see any groups of gang looking people.